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Synopsis: An upstate New York families' clash over their views of the Civil War and the views of the religious towns people comes to a head when Jeff "Tom" Beech volunteers for the Army and word gets back that he is missing. Upon word of his troubles the son of a staunch abolitionist and enemy of the Beech family sets out to find his friend! What happens next will bring a divided community together again.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ron Maxwell
Production: The Film Collective
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
21%
PG-13
Year:
2013
120 min
£171,740
Website
106 Views


Oh, yeah.

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Come on now, Ray.

You can't be sitting in the shadows.

Keep not thy talents hid. Come on.

Byron's right.

Up you go.

- Care for a drink?

- Yes, thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen,

hearken to the voice of an angel...

...set down on this earth.

Mr. Ray Hare.

Esther Hagadorn, eh?

Her father's crazier than a shithouse rat,

but she's a prize, Jeff.

She's a true prize.

Just remember:

"Always to court and never to wed

is the heaviest life that ever was led."

Has it feet like water lilies?

Has it feathers like a bird?

Is it brought

From famous countries

Of which I have never heard?

Morning

Bright shining of the sun

Morning

Will the morning ever

Will the morning

Ever come?

Abner.

Morning, Abner.

Thanks. All right.

Tabitha.

Abner.

Hmm.

This from you?

Good deal of sense in this.

But if I have something to say,

I say it direct.

I've always respected you, Abner.

I still do.

But I don't want to see politics

tear our community apart.

- Already has.

- It's Democrats who rend this country asunder.

It's Abraham Lincoln and his Republicans

tearing us apart, and the Constitution.

Closing down newspapers,

putting critics in prison.

Enlisting mere boys...

...to fight in his unconstitutional war.

What would you have President Lincoln do?

The rebs fired first. Fort Sumter.

Should've let the South go.

They'd have not harmed us.

Not harmed us?

Hell, they've split the Union in two.

Just so they could keep black men

in bondage.

I am not a slaver.

I've never even seen a slave.

But the Constitution says it's none

of York state's business what Dixie does.

Those slave-ocrats, they're not

satisfied with their little corner.

They want to expand into Kansas,

into Nebraska...

...into New Mexico.

Good Lord, they want us to steal Cuba too.

How does that fit

your beloved Constitution?

I'm no party man.

I'm no expansionist neither.

I don't want Cuba.

Hell, I didn't even want Texas.

But I do not want our boys dying.

And I don't want the Constitution dying

with them.

The Union, Abner.

Doesn't the Union mean anything to you?

It means something.

It means more than something.

But it doesn't mean everything.

My family means more to me. My farm.

The Corners means more.

York state means more to me.

And though we disagree, Avery...

...you mean more to me than any Union.

Good day to you.

Good day, Abner.

Mid toil and tribulation

And tumult of her war

She waits the consummation

Of peace forevermore

Till with the vision glorious

Her longing eyes are blessed

And the great church victorious

Shall be the church at rest

Amen

The prophet saw...

...rising out of the sea...

...a beast with seven heads...

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Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman (born November 15, 1959) is an American political writer generally aligned with the localist movement. He was born in Batavia, New York, and currently resides in Elba, New York, with his wife and daughter. A devout Roman Catholic, Kauffman was also an intimate correspondent of the late Gore Vidal, with whom he shares many ideological similarities. more…

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